Earlier this month, I blogged about the challenges of Open RAN, but obviously RANs aren’t the only part of a telco network. Operators have accepted open-model networks and multi-vendor networks more easily outside the RAN, and so I wanted to talk about what I’ve found regarding both approaches when you leave the radio network and…
I believe/hope that I have successfully transferred the contents of CIMI Corporation’s blog to Andover Intel. The process wasn’t as straightforward as I’d hoped it would be, but it seems to have worked. However, any links to other blog entries found in the CIMI blogs will likely not work once the original blog pages are…
I don’t think anyone is surprised to hear that I think “metro” is the hot spot for the network of the future. I don’t think many are surprised when I say that Juniper has been, shall we say, dabbling in metro for over a year. I use the term “dabbling” because while they’ve announced “Cloud…
I doubt there are many who don’t accept that enterprise use of the cloud is undergoing some sort of transformation. I blogged about the “why” of that last week, and so this week I want to look at what the transformation might mean, and might already be meaning, in the business of the cloud and…
Absolute truths are hard to come by these days, and one area where enterprises tell me they need those truths badly is AI. Generative AI in particular is being portrayed as the most significant development of our times, a pathway to reducing climate change, improving our health and finances, and enriching everyone’s life in general….
Let’s play the game “Suppose”. Suppose that we do transform to a future where network services are created more from hosted elements whose features then integrate with connectivity. Suppose that we include the “metaverse” and “metaverse of things” (MoT) models in that. Suppose that public cloud providers partner with operators to create service feature hosting…
One of the recurring metaverse problems is the tendency to nail the term to the social-media applications, when the concept is actually much broader. A joint report by Nokia and EY says that the “industrial metaverse” is creating “substantial business value” and demonstrates “significant or transformative impact”. This doesn’t surprise me; I’ve advocated a “metaverse…
I doubt whether anyone hasn’t read technical media and financial articles that talk about the slowing growth of cloud computing. I also doubt anyone has missed the stories of cost overruns and companies who have saved big bucks not by adopting the cloud but by moving back to, or in some cases even creating, data…
I’m a fan, and an advocate, of open systems. Thus, I’m a fan of the concept of Open RAN. The problem is that what I hear from the mobile operators doesn’t support my convictions, and I think it’s important that we look at the Open RAN situation to see why that is. We’ll start by…
We might enjoy talking about the future of the cloud, or the network, or the data center, but all three of those things are subordinate to the future of “empowerment”, the use of technology to improve business decisions and productivity. The biggest questions on tech, then, are really questions about applications, which means the software…